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Dame Shirley Bassey devastated by Michael Jackson's death
DAME Shirley Bassey has revealed Michael Jackson was planning to cover her James Bond theme Goldfinger at his ill-fated O2 residency.
The King Of Pop and Dame Shirley had met each other several times over the years and were on pet-name terms with each other, and Jackson had previously told the megastar diva about his love for the most famous of her three James Bond themes.
“He loved Goldfinger and had said he wanted to do Goldfinger in his next show,” the starlet from Cardiff’s Tiger Bay told Wales On Sunday.
“He used to call me Lady Goldfinger – he wouldn’t call me Shirley – and I just called him Michael. I actually had tickets for the first date of his concerts in London and I would have sent him a note beforehand to say I would be there and ask if I could come backstage to meet up with him later.”
When news of Jackson’s death broke on June 25, this year, Dame Shirley was enjoying a night with her celebrity friends at a star-studded charity ball. The guestlist included Lily Allen, David Walliams, Damien Hirst and Geri Halliwell.
But Dame Shirley said the news was so shocking everyone left soon after because no-one was in the mood for a party.
“I was at Elton John’s (Windsor mansion) that night and I had to leave,” she revealed.
“Michael was the greatest entertainer in the world and it was so tragic and so unexpected.”
Dame Shirley releases her new album The Performance on November 9. She recorded much of it at Lodge Studio in Ireland where, just months earlier, Jackson had been in the same studios working on new material of his own.
“We weren’t there at the same time,” she said. “He had been there a few months before, but I know he had stayed in hotel just down the road.”
Her comments come a week after she spoke candidly about her own family tragedy. As reported in last week’s Wales on Sunday she revealed how, for the past two decades, she has harboured suspicions over how her second daughter, Samantha, really died.
Her body was found floating in the river Avon at the bottom of Bristol’s Clifton Suspension Bridge in 1985. She was 22.
The coroner recorded an open verdict, but Dame Shirley has since raised questions over the fact her daughter’s body had no broken bones and no marks on her skin. Neither was there any fluid in the lungs.
Following her emotional remarks, a pathologist who assisted with the post mortem examination said this week it was unlikely Samantha had entered the river from the towering bridge.
Dr Hugh White, who had just started his career at the time, said: “You never really get over it. I’ll take it with me to my grave.
“It is 250ft from the bridge to the water level. Travelling at about 120mph [and hitting the water] is like hitting concrete.
“It is highly unlikely you would not find any trace of injury to the body if it had fallen from the bridge.”
However, police believed she died on the night of August 29 after falling in from a lesser height.
The coroner ruled she died from shock due to suddenly falling into cold water, causing her to lose consciousness instantaneously.
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Das wußte ich garnicht, daß es da eine Verbindung gab.
Dame Shirley Bassey devastated by Michael Jackson's death
DAME Shirley Bassey has revealed Michael Jackson was planning to cover her James Bond theme Goldfinger at his ill-fated O2 residency.
The King Of Pop and Dame Shirley had met each other several times over the years and were on pet-name terms with each other, and Jackson had previously told the megastar diva about his love for the most famous of her three James Bond themes.
“He loved Goldfinger and had said he wanted to do Goldfinger in his next show,” the starlet from Cardiff’s Tiger Bay told Wales On Sunday.
“He used to call me Lady Goldfinger – he wouldn’t call me Shirley – and I just called him Michael. I actually had tickets for the first date of his concerts in London and I would have sent him a note beforehand to say I would be there and ask if I could come backstage to meet up with him later.”
When news of Jackson’s death broke on June 25, this year, Dame Shirley was enjoying a night with her celebrity friends at a star-studded charity ball. The guestlist included Lily Allen, David Walliams, Damien Hirst and Geri Halliwell.
But Dame Shirley said the news was so shocking everyone left soon after because no-one was in the mood for a party.
“I was at Elton John’s (Windsor mansion) that night and I had to leave,” she revealed.
“Michael was the greatest entertainer in the world and it was so tragic and so unexpected.”
Dame Shirley releases her new album The Performance on November 9. She recorded much of it at Lodge Studio in Ireland where, just months earlier, Jackson had been in the same studios working on new material of his own.
“We weren’t there at the same time,” she said. “He had been there a few months before, but I know he had stayed in hotel just down the road.”
Her comments come a week after she spoke candidly about her own family tragedy. As reported in last week’s Wales on Sunday she revealed how, for the past two decades, she has harboured suspicions over how her second daughter, Samantha, really died.
Her body was found floating in the river Avon at the bottom of Bristol’s Clifton Suspension Bridge in 1985. She was 22.
The coroner recorded an open verdict, but Dame Shirley has since raised questions over the fact her daughter’s body had no broken bones and no marks on her skin. Neither was there any fluid in the lungs.
Following her emotional remarks, a pathologist who assisted with the post mortem examination said this week it was unlikely Samantha had entered the river from the towering bridge.
Dr Hugh White, who had just started his career at the time, said: “You never really get over it. I’ll take it with me to my grave.
“It is 250ft from the bridge to the water level. Travelling at about 120mph [and hitting the water] is like hitting concrete.
“It is highly unlikely you would not find any trace of injury to the body if it had fallen from the bridge.”
However, police believed she died on the night of August 29 after falling in from a lesser height.
The coroner ruled she died from shock due to suddenly falling into cold water, causing her to lose consciousness instantaneously.
Quelle => http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wa...1466-25066244/
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